In
Mail Extractor Plus extraction means 'showing data extracted from emails'.
We provided four different extractions for each email type (Marketplace,
zShop, Half.com, eBay, Alibris) – Default,
Alternate, and Invoice. The four extractions have equal features, and the names
are conventional - just to make a better distinction. Each extraction
is based on a customizable template, which means that you could possibly
have 12 different templates:
4 x (Marketplace, zShop, Half.com, eBay, Alibris).

You
can use Default template
to print picking list. You can customize the template so it contains
only the data you need in order to pull ordered items from the shelf
(SKU, ISBN, Condition, Quantity, Title).

The
Alternate template can be used say for printing shipping addresses
or any other purpose.

The
Invoice template can be used for printing Invoices for your buyer.

Click
the Extraction Options button
to edit the extraction templates and to set any other parameters related
to the extraction.

A template
contains a mixture of text and tags. Tags look like HTML tags, they
are special reserved words within "<" and ">" signs. There are
five different sets of tags - for Marketplace, zShop, Half.com, eBay,
and Alibris, respectively. The available set of tags is in the left
blue panel. Double click on a tag to place it in the template, on the
current cursor position. You can create any combination of tags &
text. When extracting, tags are replaced with the actual value of the
parameter (pulled from the email). For example, <TITLE>
will be replaced with the original book item title. The text parts will
remain unchanged.

You
can also mix pictures with the tags and text. However, PICTURES SHOULD BE AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE IN FILE SIZE,
AND PREFERABLY BLACK & WHITE!!! Black &White pictures
take less memory resources, and therefore it takes less time to generate
the final text.

The template showed in the editor
is used to generate the above sample extraction:

Some
options in the menu of the Extraction Options Window (Extraction Templates
Editor)

Edit
Separator String

This
is an editable character string which helps the program to know where
to make page breaks when printing the text in "One record per page",
ie. when that option is checked in the main window. There are more details
about this string in one of the next sections.

Show
Date on the Top

Instructs
the program to generate the current date at the top of the extraction
in the main window.

Group
extraction by venue

This
is a type of group sorting. It instructs the program to group the printed
text by venues (Marketplace, zShop, Half.com, eBay, Alibris), but still
using the actual sorting method (by date or by SKU).
If not used, Mail Extractor Plus will mix Amazon and Half orders according
to the applied sorting method.

SPECIAL
FONTS

The
"Use special fonts" option in the Extraction Template Editor
is on by default. When generating extraction, the program uses different
formats of fonts, depending on one of the specificities of the order.
There are the three such cases:

- International orders
- Orders in which ordered quantity is greater than 1
- Expedited orders

This
option overrides some formatting in your templates, such
as color, size etc. Play with it, set different fonts, it's the best
way to learn how it works. Don't
forget to check "Use special fonts", otherwise
it won't work.

EXTRACTION
PRINTING

By "extraction"
we mean the content generated when hitting any of the extraction buttons
(Default, Alternate or Invoice). The extraction can be edited manually.
When printing the extraction, you can choose between two modes:

-print
continuosly

-print
one record per page

Uncheck
"Print One record per page" to instruct Mail Extractor to print as many
orders' data as can fit on one page. In this mode Mail Extractor will
not split your order's data onto two or more pages, beacuse it has a
smart print processor which can achieve this by detecting the Separator String*,and calculating the printing space
needed for each order's data. As it detects that there is not enough
space to print the complete data of an order on the current page, it
passes to a new page to commence printing for that order. In this mode,
Mail Extractor prints the Separator String to visually separate records
one from another.

Check
"Print One record per page" to instruct Mail Extractor to print the
data for one order on a single page. The second order's data will be
printed on the second page, etc. In this mode, the separator string
is not printed.

* Separator String – a
character string which represents the divider between records. You can
edit this string, but please use an unusual string, which is never expected
to be a part of any order's data. Otherwise, printing might be erroneous.

ASSIGNING
GROUPS

Every
time you hit the Print command, Mail Extractor will ask you if you want
it to assign a group number to the orders. The way it works is already
described in the Description
of Field Columns section.